Monday, 1 February 2010

Wijchen Swingt Internationaal

This is a competition we always look forward to. It is one of the few events in The Netherlands with so many participants in each class. The dance floor is more than 500 sqm and is much wider than in other competitions. This makes it difficult for many couples to respect the dance directions. We also had difficulties to fit our program into the unusual shape of the floor. The event was a huge success and we can only congratulate the organisation for the demo's, warm-up space, wardrobe, shops, parking, catering...

We finish the competition in place 15 out of 28 couples. This was very disappointing for us after the finals we danced in the last two competitions. Most likely the jury wanted to see something else on Sunday. For our first round we shouldn't look for excuses, it was just poor. The redance we danced very good but only received 6 marks. It is a pity that for such a big competition only 5 adjudicators are available in each class. It makes it more of a lottery when you know that couples with only 9 marks out of 20 make it to the next round.The organisation should consider changing it's name next year to "Wijchen Swingt Nationaal". Almost no foreign couples participated and only one adjudicator was from outside The Netherlands, in the D-class none. In my opinion this is not international at all.